Mary Lattimore's Blissed-Out Making Time Set Is Precisely The Serenity Now That We Need

Making Time, the now-venerable party that has energized multiple Philly music and art scenes, turned 20 years old this past weekend. (Let that sink in. We’ll wait.) Times being what they are, celebrations took the form of a weekend-long streaming festival event that featured sets by a cast of MT favorites from Hot Chip to Zillas On Acid. But right in the middle, kicking off Saturday’s events was the above set from Philly expat Mary Lattimore, up on a hill somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area, surrounded by cacti and much other flora, playing her harp through a delay pedal. 

It was exquisite. 

And it also proves the ongoing worth of what Making Time, and its creator David “Dave P” Pianka, has been doing this whole time. While the party has historically been defined by the #cocainesexjams that big dance parties generally demand, this has often been the pill pocket for the real dog medicine: Pianka’s utterly omnivorous musical evangelism. Lattimore’s set didn’t feature a single drum track, but it connected on a level that even (or maybe especially) any 24-Hour Party Person would get. Her music, like the deepest house cuts, transform whatever place you hear them in. And in this case, playing tracks from her new record as well as instant classics like “Wawa By The Ocean,”  that transformation amounted to a real balm to the soul.